Hi everyone.

I need some help with trying to get itunes running correctly and getting the itunes purchases ive made to play video smoothly. Does anyone have any experience that could help?

I have tried many different settings /versions but just cant seem to solve this one on my own.(just dont know enough about linux yet) Am open to using any distro, or sharing my screen/chat. My computer is a mid 2011 imac. I can provide specs if needed.

Thanks guys

Mark

I'm not really understanding the purpose of your post. You indicate you have a 2011 imac (Apple product) and you want to be able to get itunes (Apple product) videos to run smoothly. How does Linux fit into this? Do you have some distribution of Linux installed or available? If you are using the proprietary itunes ad have a Mac computer which is also an Apple product, why use Linux? Are there some other factors involved here?

I see what you mean. Its really for a few reasons. I like the challenge, i can no longer upgrade the macos on the machine anymore as its not compatible. I have been using ubuntu also on the machine but have tried a couple of other distros.I love the speed of the way ubuntu runs on my machjne and the challenge of learning something new. So i would basically love to be able to bring over my videos so i could spend more time in ubuntu.

I'm not aware of any port of iTunes to run on Linux. Most report limited, or no, success running the Windows version in wine.

This isn't so much a Linux problem, as it is an Apple/iTunes problem. They DRM lock pretty much ALL of their content, so unless you can export things to an actual un-encrypted file on your hard drive, you can't play it without iTunes, period, on ANY OS.

As noted, some people have been able to run it with Wine..while some have not. Apple is of zero help, and won't support you at all for this, which is a really good reason to avoid such DRM in the first place; you don't actually own what you buy with iTunes...you rent it. That being said, I also run Linux on an iMac 27", and I can report it runs flawlessly, although the 2011 models may (???) have a Radeon card that doesn't support the eye-candy features. Cheap to change, though, but again you have to have an APPLE video card, even though the slot it fits into is a standard one. Anything other than an Apple video card will fail. You should also check out OWC.com, as they make pieces/parts for Macs that let you rid yourself of the Apple limitations. Such as putting ANY cheap hard/SSD drive into the Mac, without the fans going full-speed (a $25 sensor fixes that), and if you run Linux only, you can take out the old and slow wifi card and update to something current, since THAT will also be supported.

I think the problem you are going to run into is getting the proprietary macOS/iTunes content over to the Ubuntu side of things. I stopped using iTunes on my Mac years ago, out of sheer frustration due to the constant changes and "dumbing down." If there's some way to export the music as .mp3 and video as .mpg4, you might be able to get there. But forget about .flac or .ogg; Apple/iTunes doesn't play well with open formats.

You need all the libimobiledevice and related software which probably is installed in a default Ubuntu. Might check this first. Then install on your iphone or ipad (don't know about ipads as I just used an iphone) VLC for Mobile. The link below has a brief description of using it. I used it to copy music to/from the iphone and small videos to/from the iphone on Ubuntu 18.04 and Slackware 14.2. Before being able to access the iphone from your computer, you will obviously need to set Trust on the iphone w/your 4 character passcode.

https://www.howtogeek.com/169251/how...ithout-itunes/

If you want to copy music/video files from your iphone, when opening VLC on the computer with sharing set on iphone there is a top section labelled Drop Files used to copy from computer to iphone and below that is Download Files to select files (videos/music) to download from the iphone
to the computer. This bottom section is what you want. Click on the video/music file to open it. When I do this it shows another blank (grey) window with
the title of the video/music file. Left click the title to open it and begin playing then right click to save as to where you
want it.

The screen on VLC when I used it about a year ago was different than shown at the link below but had the same options. The interface changes and it's been a year since I did this. If you don't get it working, post back with exact information on what you did and what the results were.

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